Abstract
From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents obtained the following quote: “The present invention relates to multimodal identi fication, and more specifically, to multimodal identification of items for a rob otic item manipulation system.” Supplementing the background information on this patent, NewsRx reporters also o btained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: “Robotic arms are us ed to sort, organize, and handle items (e.g., items stored in totes in a warehou se). The robotic arms may pick up an item and use a scanner (e.g., a barcode sca nner) to scan a code (e.g., a barcode) on the item. This code is then used to id entify the item and to determine how the robotic arm should handle the item. For example, the robotic arm may organize the item in a particular container. As an other example, the robotic arm may place the item at a particular location for d elivery. As yet another example, the robotic arm may discard the item.
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